CB> It's not usually the engineer's oversight or fault - the
CB> real culprits in "bad design" cases are the accountants
CB> and other financial people, looking to cut the costs.
CB> Save $1 in parts on a radio that sells a million, and that
CB> bumps the company's profit from that radio up by $1,000,000...

RG> Frankly, I feel this is wank...   sure, the accountants, etc could
RG> ask (even demand) that an engineer trim $1.00 off the production costs,
RG> but I don't believe for a minute that any of them could have the force
RG> to make the engineer do so, well, not unless the engineer in question
RG> is so incompetent that he'd fear losing his/her job over it.

Obviously you've never actually been involved in any high volume manufacture.
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